No other DB is as scalable, fault tolerant, nor self-healing like Oracle is. It's all simply bluster from Amazon regardless to how it sounds. Now a real question for customers who actually are considering it and taking active steps to move: is moving to AWS really in your best interests as Amazon is not your friend...
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Oracle is the #1 enterprise database and there's simply no other choice out there. In any TCA analysis you'd always have Oracle as the lowest cost due to how c-ap all the other offerings are. The only people who whine are the tech heads who are 'forced' to use it but thank god those id--ts don't make business decisions. Tech heads are not business leaders and the reason business leaders choose Oracle is that their neck is on the line. When you buy a c-ap DB then you rely on the id--t tech heads to make it work. When you buy Oracle then you have a vendor who will bleed to support you. Tech heads should stick to doing as they're told and leave independent thinking to business leaders.
Anytime there is bad news about Oracle (e.g. TK leaving), the shills come out of the woodwork defending the company and their sh--ty products. Sorry fellas - but try as you might Oracle's customers (and employees) are abandoning Oracle in growing numbers. Expect the trickle to become a flood in no time.
The problem for Oracle is “good enough” . Some customers need all the bells and whistles but most probably don’t or would be appt to live without them for less expense.
For what SFDC uses our RDBMS it should be possible to come up with a cheaper alternative. They have the resources to develop a custom solution based on PostgreSQL and the beauty of the cloud is that their customers rally don’t give a flying c-ap what is underneath their UI as long as it is reliable.
I might not be happy from an organizational standpoint but with respect to an rdbms - the comment about other db's being more scalable for bi, analytics blah blah - is wishful thinking. DB2 and Oracle are really the only enterprise grade rdbms's so....go IBM probably pay just as much and get less, even some lifetime fellows from the almaden research center have left the db2 group. It's not really a threat it's a technical reality and you should know it well before you loose your a$$ recommending some s*** database substitute
I dare you to get off my product.
That just further incents your customers to leave. There are many options that scale much better than Oracle when it comes to analytics, BI, data science, machine learning etc...
For OLTP, it’s still a good product but so is SQL Server, which now runs on Linux. DB2 is good. Open source is looking real good like MySQL/MariaDB and Postgres. On top of that, NoSQL scales to a much higher txn rate. All that Oracle is good at now is complex txn on large OLTP and even that’s under attack with ACID coming to NoSQL and Big Data land.
Oracle is toast.
"It's all simply bluster"
Were you referring to Oracle's marketing terms like "self-healing", the bravado around winning in Cloud or the claims that the customer's won't find a way to migrate off?
Feasibility is never a question for some one with money. A is analyzing a lot of things, if things work out O will be out in a click. So keep waiting for the big news anytime!!
A friend of mine is a Vmware Consultant. She said Oracle database no longer used in newer version but some open source databases.
OP is a mo--n. What a joke. One of my customers is in the process of migrating away from Oracle now and saving money.
OP : bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah........
thank you, really thank you, you made my day with your joke.
really appreciated, can you post something like this everyday?
You might suspect rumors of migrating off of Oracle are mostly there to keep a lid on Oracle's licensing costs. But if I were salesforce, and I'm not, I'd have constant R&D project running to see if I could come up with a custom database engine that is optimized for the multi-tenant architecture. It doesn't have to be better than Oracle across the board, just better at SObjects...
What a dumba$$
OP needs to stay away from the dispensaries. Every customer I talk to, is actively moving from Oracle.
It is difficult, but not impossible, to migrate off the Oracle database. Amazon and Salesforce certainly are in the process of migrating off. SAP has announced that all customers must be off of Oracle by 2025 and migrate to HANA. The bigger issue is that there are very few new Oracle projects. New apps are going into the Cloud and run Cloud databases.
It is difficult, but not impossible, to migrate off the Oracle database. Amazon and Salesforce certainly are in the process of migrating off. SAP has announced that all customers must be off of Oracle by 2015 and migrate to HANA. The bigger issue is that there are very few new Oracle projects. New apps are going into the Cloud and run Cloud databases.
AWS is not your friend but Oracle certainly your enemy. Partnering with Oracle is like having an enemy sleeps next to you. Oracle autonomous just a generic marketing term. If you willing to pay for AWS services, AWS is far more scalable than Oracle and on demand. Your statement clearly showing that you have no idea what you talking about. Oracle database is yesterday technology. Market shares have been dropping rapidly since a couple years ago. Fully autonomous vehicles will come before the database.
Wishful thinking my friend, talk about there is only one of something is always self serving and delusional